What are the temperatures like on Mount Kilimanjaro?
It’s very helpful to look at a photo slideshow and note how people are dressed. Usually people only wear shorts or short sleeves on the first and last days on Kilimajaro – the two lowest days. Other than that you will be wearing long pants and long sleeves, and adding layers as you move up the mountain – first a fleece, then a windbreaker over it, and eventually a down jacket often at the two highest camps. Hat and gloves are often brought out at the second camp on the mountain, where frost usually appears on our tents for the first time. Crater camp may have temperatures around 0 to +10 degrees F overnight, sometimes colder. Generally, Kilimanjaro will not be what you picture as equatorial Africa in terms of temperature. It is usually colder than people expect, and people “feel” the cold more than they expect at any given temperature due to the altitude.
